#nichellen

saathi1013 replied to your post: Deserving young friend has a new (acad...

I adore you and your impressive range of knowledge and depth of insight into fannish behavior, fwiw, but you already knew that. Want me to teach you euchre?

I may need you to! I feel bad, because you and others are saying such kind things, and I know what a dick I can be sometimes... I don’t deserve that kind of praise, but I’m grateful for it. :’)

sorrelmae replied to your post: Deserving young friend has a new (acad...

Well this won’t help with the shitty, shitty ageism at all, but personally, I like the three player, cut throat version of Hi-Lo Jack.

I really love that people are offering to teach me cards. Once upon a time I knew how to play Hearts, and I learned... something... years ago, that clearly I cannot remember, but that’s about it. ;)

babbledevice replied to your post: Deserving young friend has a new (acad...

Nothing about this is easy, so I can’t dredge up any sort of Pollyanna response about how you’re supposed to be feeling all positive. I’m really sorry about how terrible you’re feeling. (I’m only a few years behind you, I think.)

That’s okay - it’s something that’s been on my mind pretty much since my dad died, almost two years ago. That kind of drove home my mortality in a way I hadn’t really thought about it before (which was lucky for me, tbh), but now with the combined inability to do anything with what I feel like I still have to offer, as well as knowledge that I’ve got more years behind me than ahead, and on top of that assholes who would rather treat others like crap rather than pull their heads from their asses... it’s just kind of hard to claw my way back to the surface sometimes.

unreconstructedfangirl replied to your post: Deserving young friend has a new (acad...

Well, as a 45 year old person who loves the contribution you and all the other so-called “has-beens” make, I wish I could help with the positivity. I think it’s just a matter of ignoring nonsense, really.

I think you’re probably right... and all the more reason, IMO, to move from “fandom” to something less totalizing. We may share a common textual interest, but that’s about as far as that connection goes.

teaforlupin replied to your post: Deserving young friend has a new (acad...

Sending you hugs! Screw the attitude that denies the value of age and experience >.>

Thank you! Yeah... one way or another, I’m hoping I can find a way to make age and experience mean something... 

nichellen replied to your post: Deserving young friend has a new (acad...

There are whole swathes of the fandom I steer clear of because of attitudes like that – my life is happier for it. Sometimes fandom ‘trends’ must pass me by entirely because of the fragmentation, but … meh

patternofdefiance replied to your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

Drive or direction?

lovemyluggage replied to your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

Sorry, my comment was wrong. Narrative as noun instead of adjective. The impetus of the narrative……….never mind. I’ve lost track of myself.

lovemyluggage replied to your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

Agree with the commenter saying: just leave it as narrative.

amindamazed answered your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

what about narrative as noun, not adjective? this articulation constituted the narrative.

otp221b replied to your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

I think you want to turn narrative into a noun and put “ongoing” “continuing”, etc. OR “narrative path”?

theconsultingtranslator answered your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

Propulsion?

unreconstructedfangirl answered your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

Vector?

doctornerdington answered your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

Arc? Momentum?

nichellen replied to your post: People who remember English: help?So, ...

… drive… ?

I don’t know honestly. I’m probably not a valid test case since I started writing long long long before I was even aware of fandom. 

I don’t think it’s a case of focus or lack of focus, though. There is a sense of groundedness, for lack of a word that actually exists, in a story with a large supporting cast of friends and family and acquaintances. It works brilliantly in some stories, like the one I’m reading right now. There’s a richness in having a vivid world and setting at your fingertips. 

I tend to write about people that are fairly rootless for one reason or another (which isn’t surprising—I feel pretty rootless myself sometimes), and that doesn’t lend itself to sprawling hometowns and family histories. For the stories I’m writing right now, that rootlessness works, for the most part. But I do wonder what layers I could add if I had bigger casts and more connections for my main characters.

I find the degree of bonding between MAFM & your brother which this implies kind of charming. Aided, no doubt, by the fact that said printer isn’t in MY home . . .

It's an evolving relationship, but they both have a certain love of the ridiculous. My brother also brought him a Polish sea captain hat. 

fuzzyzilla replied to your post: In the things-you-cannot-make-up depar...

He just didn’t want to see it go to waste! They’d have had to throw it out otherwise! (I *told* him you were going to take him down for this)…

I know. It's fine. It just takes up half the house, but that's okay.

tiltedsyllogism replied to your post: In the things-you-cannot-make-up depar...

I am sorry for your pain but omg I am laughing so hard

At this point, there's nothing left but to laugh. ;)

verymorstan replied to your post: In the things-you-cannot-make-up depar...

why jesus why

No. Idea.

nichellen replied to your post: In the things-you-cannot-make-up depar...

I understand that your other helf has a printer addiction. What is it about printers, exactly, that … excites … him? Why are four printers better than three? Do they have different purposes/qualities? Is there any logic involved? I feel for you!

Think of the repercussions for in-universe politics of sex and gender! The economic implications of babies without 9ish months build up. The [different] in-universe reasons for unwanted "pregnancies" -- the impact of this on... cases... everything!

Yes! You wouldn't have to worry about sex and gender! It's almost like the anti-Omegaverse that way, in that the Omegaverse is kind of like, "What if guys got treated like girls just because they have the babies." Whereas in this scheme, no one's having the babies, so theoretically everyone should be equally the same. So child-rearing really should be equally split between the parents and their individual preferences. 

And your baby showers would happen after the fact, after you've met the baby and have ideas about what you want for the baby, and they would be these huge parties. 

WRITE THIS

madeincydonia replied to your post: New Magical Realism-ish(?) AU Idea

YES PLEASE

docoflaherty replied to your post: New Magical Realism-ish(?) AU Idea

What a fantastic idea!!

Keep a note of everything she says/does that is odd. Call 911 with anything that looks like deterioration/all symptoms, contact any doctor(s) that you can and try your best to get your Mum to the ER through persuasion… sorry this is happening!

oooh it’s so blue! I love it

It is! It's Pravana vivids Turquoise. So much brighter than what I was using before.

therenboy replied to your post: I promised you guys better photos of m...

you look fantastic!!!

Thank you <3

otterystmarymorstan replied to your post: I promised you guys better photos of m...

I LIKE!

YAY! ME TOO!

nichellen replied to your post: I promised you guys better photos of m...

Cooooooooool [eloquent Nic is eloquent]. So coooool.